Performance is the theme of the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair in Switzerland next week, with designers including Front, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas and Max Lamb creating objects live during the event. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12.

Young British designer Max Lamb, for example, will recreate the making of his Pewter Stool, which was originally cast in the sand of a beach in Cornwall (this series of images).

Maarten Baas will demonstrate how he makes his Clay chairs while Tom Dixon will present a working micro-factory.

*Wednesday 13 June/ 3pm
One Laptop Per Child: $100 Computers for the World’s Children

Alice Rawsthorn, Design Critic for the International Herald Tribune, talks with industrial designer Yves Béhar about his visionary new project with Nicholas Negroponte and OLPC, underscoring the potential for design to make the world a better place